She’s half right: Hillary Clinton Blames F.B.I. Director for Election Loss. The other half being that Comey was directed at each step of the way by Obama who wanted to have enough pretext to indict her and have Tim Kaine become president. It was the unexpected outcome of the on-again off-again investigation where the final attempt to rescind the possibility of prosecution came too late and may have anyway already have caused the fatal outcome, fatal for Hillary that is.`

Mrs. Clinton said a second letter from Mr. Comey, clearing her once again, which came two days before Election Day, had been even more damaging. In that letter, Mr. Comey said an examination of a new trove of emails, which had been found on the computer of Anthony D. Weiner, the estranged husband of one of her top aides, had not caused him to change his earlier conclusion that Mrs. Clinton should face no charges over her handling of classified information.

Her campaign said the seemingly positive outcome had only hurt it with voters who did not trust Mrs. Clinton and were receptive to Mr. Trump’s claims of a “rigged system.” In particular, white suburban women who had been on the fence were reminded of the email imbroglio and broke decidedly in Mr. Trump’s favor, aides said.

After leading in polls in many battleground states, Mrs. Clinton told the donors on Saturday, “we dropped, and we had to keep really pushing to regain our advantage, which going into last weekend we had.”

“We were once again up in all but two of the battleground states, and we were up considerably in some that we ended up losing,” Mrs. Clinton said. “And we were feeling like we had to put it back together.”

I wonder if she understands what was going on. It’s possible, but no one can say it so we will never know, unless she puts her suspicions into an email.

The story: Hillary Couldn’t Stop Crying, Told Friend She Blames Comey and Obama For Loss. If you start where I do, with Obama’s aim always to make Tim Kaine president, which needed her to win but to then be indicted by the FBI, then you see what was afoot. It was the balancing of both her winning with then being indicted that went astray at the last minute. First Comey clears her, then he re-opens the case which starts an avalanche against her, so he closes the case again with four days to go which turned out to be too late. And behind Comey, there is Obama and his strategists who are manipulating it all so that the result comes out just right. So now listen to Hillary who cannot say exactly what she means but all of it fits the facts perfectly as I see them.

Hillary Clinton “couldn’t stop crying” once she learned of her loss to Donald Trump on Tuesday, best-selling conservative author Ed Klein told Newsmax TV on Wednesday.

“About 6:30 this morning she called an old friend,” he began on “The Steve Malzberg Show” in an interview. “She was crying, inconsolably.

“She couldn’t stop crying.

“Her friend said — her female friend from way, way, back — said that it was even hard to understand what she was saying, she was crying so hard.

“Eventually,” he continued, “her friend said she could make out that she was blaming James Comey, the director of the FBI, for her loss — and this I don’t understand exactly — and the president of the United States for not doing enough.”

Klein said his source then asked further about President Barack Obama.

“She said: ‘Well, she felt, Hillary felt, that the president could have stopped Comey a long time ago, because that’s what [former President] Bill [Clinton] said.”

Yes he could have, and even did, but started it up again when he thought the election was over. One more thing Obama screwed up, but we should be used to that by now. And finally, a president cannot be an emotional wreck the way Hillary is here portrayed. Losing like this is no doubt a major personal catastrophe but this kind of disintegration is very dangerous in an American president.

Let me say that anyone who says they saw this coming, other than Scott Adams, is kidding themselves. This was utterly unpredictable since it required so much to go right at all the right places. Even the election being in the second Tuesday in November provided that all-important extra week that got Trump over the line. And then there were the Wikileaks, the Weiner-leaks, the actions of the FBI director and the behind-the-scenes manipulations of Obama that allowed it all to come good.

But there is also this. I saw somewhere that the reason Hillary lost was because the polls had her so far ahead and so certain to win that the usual efforts to cast fraudulent ballots was diminished since it seemed so unnecessary. This seems truly plausible. Why bother voting five times when three is enough, you don’t really need that many non-citizens to get to the polls and the dead can be left to rest in peace until the next time their votes are needed.

But then there is this as well: Key battleground states that voted for Donald Trump had turnout suppressed by local laws, experts say. What they mean by “suppressed” is this:

As many as 300,000 Wisconsin voters did not have the required photo ID. With lower than expected turnout, Trump was the first Republican to win the state since Ronald Reagan in 1984.

That is, when those folks who crossed into Wisconsin from out of state went to the polling stations, they were asked to prove who they were and that they had a legitimate right to vote in Wisconsin. With no such ID they could not vote. This may have made all the difference in the world in whether Trump became president rather than Hillary. The voter registration laws and the maintenance of up-to-date electoral lists should be a high priority over the next four years.

And He may also be keeping an eye out for the rest of us as well.

There are not many moments like this that come along in a lifetime. We went out tonight to see that brave Canadian climate sceptic, Tim Ball, discussing his costly adventures in climate change. His legal bills are now over a million. It does not come cheap to wrangle with these people, but he seemed pretty content with life as it has unfolded. But he was certainly as thrilled as I am about what a Trump presidency will mean. It also means that the political fights have only just begun.

And this was as improbable a victory as I have ever seen. And the big losers are not just Hillary, the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation. We can also add to the cart the #NeverTrumps, the #OccasionallyTrumps and the Sunshine Conservatives who have revealed themselves. And of course, there is the media. Watching the ABC when I came home was one of those precious experiences that for someone such as myself who almost never watches TV, gave such immense pleasure, as much on the plus side for me as the negatives must have been for them as revealed by the misery on their faces. The same kind of pleasure watching Megyn Kelly as I replayed the afternoon on Fox that I had missed going out.

I might also throw in that perhaps the biggest loser of them all is Obama. He has been a global disaster, but his eight years will be swept, as those of his kind like to say, into the dustbin of history. There will be an ample amount of damage to clean up, some which will never be fixed, but at least come January he will be history and have no successor. I wish I could say we can then all start again, but we can at least start a fairly decent salvaging operation.

So to go back to the quote, either Bismarck was absolutely right or the planets were lined up just exactly right, but who could have predicted any of it. You could see Trump learning on the job and getting the polish together just a bit more each day. He turned his vague aims into a series of specific policy proposals that make profound sense for those of us who pay attention to such things. There were the Wikileaks, Comey’s decision not to prosecute, then the Weiner revelations followed by Comey’s decision to re-open the case, and then finally his reversal. Not to mention Hillary’s disastrous record in politics where her only success was to become possibly the most brazen political liar in history. As for everything else, there was not a single actual success of any kind she could point to that might give anyone the slightest notion that she could handle the office of the Presidency, even if she were healthy, which she clearly is not.

On the negative side, of course, there was some locker-room talk from back in 2005. That was the only issue ever brought up in Hillary’s favour. I never heard another reason to vote for her or against Trump by those who sided with the Democrats, and I did try to find out. How history hinges on such things, in the way that Romney travelling with a dog on the roof of his car might have cost him the presidency in 2012. But that was then; this is now. Hurray for our side, but there now really is a lot to do.